The question of this article "Is Zionism relevant to you" and the presumed answer of Diaspora Jews ("No, it's not relevant") are NOT indications of the lack of Israel's centrality in modern Jewish life. New York, quite obviously, is not the center of "global Jewry" while the Land of Israel and its Hebrew culture obviously are. The weakening of the connection to Israel of the younger generations is an indication of the weakening of Jewish identity in the Diaspora. Most Jews don't know even the Hebrew alphabet, let alone the Jewish text. Most young Jews hardly see the themselves as the posterity of an ancient people and civilization - the Jews in their eyes are merely a religious community of individuals who are not particularly religious. In short, the Jewish identity of an American Jew is not his primary identity; his American identity is primary and it alone has real content. Obviously, such a person doesn't find Israel or Zionism to be an important factor in his life. But this is not the failure of Zionism or the image of Israel - this is the crisis of Jewish existence in America. Only in Israel is the Jewish identity primary. It's an identity whose central expression is the Hebrew language. An American Jew can hardly understand the Jewishness of Israel, because his own Jewishness is so shallow - it's a Jewishness without a Jewish language and distinctiveness.